As part of its annual corporate sustainability ranking process, RobecoSAM, the company behind the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), produced with S&P Dow Jones Indices, will now ask public companies the same climate change questions as those developed over the past decade by CDP, provider of the only global environmental disclosure system and producer of the annual Climate Disclosure and Climate Performance Leadership Indexes (CDLI & CPLI). This collaboration will improve the comparability of sustainability data in the global market and will simplify the process for companies answering multiple requests for environmental information.

RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing, and S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index (DJSI Emerging Markets). The DJSI Emerging Markets offers investors a tool for measuring the performance of companies that RobecoSAM has recognized as leaders compared to their peers in terms of corporate sustainability and it also provides an effective engagement platform to encourage companies from emerging markets to adopt sustainable best practices.

SAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices announce the results of the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) review. SAM names the 19 Supersector leaders that truly stand out amongst their peers as well as the largest additions and deletions to the index family. The DJSI are based on SAM’s annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment, which measures the sustainability performance of over 2,000 of the largest companies globally.

SAM announces the appointment of Guido Guise as Head of Indexes. He is responsible for the development of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index family, including global sales, licensing, partnerships and client services.

SAM kicks off annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment – leading companies will make it into the Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Olympus to be removed from regional Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

SAM and Dow Jones Indexes announce the 2011 results of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) annual review. This year, 41 companies will be added to, and 23 firms will be deleted from the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), resulting in a total of 342 components. Launched in 1999, the DJSI are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.

As of today, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been removed from the three regional Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) of which it was a member since 2009.

Dow Jones Indexes and SAM today announced they have licensed the Dow Jones Sustainability World Enlarged ex All/AE IndexSM and the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe ex All/AE IndexSM to iShares, the exchange traded funds (ETF) platform of BlackRock Inc.